Furniture guard



F. C. FRAZIER FURNITURE GUARD Filed April 25, 1955 I'M w H H m M a H T: T P @J V H r 1 Z Q m Z v w A N r lo m 6 I P Z I m H W EJ u 9 5 M 2m United States Patent FURNITURE GUARD Forrest C. Frazier, Indianapolis, Ind. Application April 25, 1955, Serial No. 503,532

2 Claims. (Cl. 45--137) This invention relates to a structure to be attached to a piece of furniture such as a couch or a sofa bed as a means for spacing the piece of furniture from the wall of a room so as to prevent marking of the wall, as well as to give a space for engaging the back of the couch or bed to shift it into a bed position as is required in some constructions.

The structure embodying the invention is adjustable to abut the wall or the baseboard along the wall at varying distances from the floor depending upon conditions encountered, such as different heights of the baseboard. The present baseboard now being used on a large scale is much less in height than is the older baseboard of some years ago. Preferably it is desired that the guard abut the baseboard where possible, although it is per fectly feasible to have it abut the wall itself above the baseboard.

A further important object of the invention is to provide a structure which is exceedingly simple and requires nothing more than a screw driver for releasing it and permitting it to be turned as to its abutting member to the desired height and then tightening up one or more screws. The invention also embodies the feature of giving an adjustability of the guard member toward and away from the wall.

These and many other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent to those versed in the art in the following description of one particular form of the invention as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a view in side elevation of the structure embodying the invention as applied to the base of a piece of furniture; and

Fig. 2 is a view in end elevation of the structure.

A L-shaped bracket is formed to have an upturned flange 11 from which turns a base 12.

A pair of opposing clamp members 13 and 14 are secured to the underside of the base 12 substantially centrally therealong and extends downwardly with arcuate portions 15 and 16 between the underside of the base 12 and lower planar ends 17 and 18, through which extend one or more bolts 19, herein shown as two in number.

A rod generally designated by the numeral 20 and having a circular cross section is formed to have an off-set end 21 to form a structure in the nature of a crank. The rod 20 is carried through the two bends 22 and 23 to bring the end portion 21 in substantial parallelism with the major length of the rod 20. On the end of the length 21 there is engaged a resilient tip 24, frictionally retained over that end 21 and closed across its outer end.

The bracket 10 is fixed to the piece of furniture selected, such as by being engaged by one or more screws 25 inserted through the base 12 and into the under edge portion of a frame member 26 which is a part of the piece of furniture.

Normally in couches and sofa beds there are bottom wood rails, of which 26 would be one. The upturned flange 11 is brought against the side face of the rail 26, all as indicated in Fig. 1. This disposes the axis of the two opposing clamp members 13 and 14 transversely of the rail 26. The rod 20 is inserted between the two members 13 and 14 to have the length 21 extend from the rail 26 that distance whereby the outer face of the member 24 will abut the baseboard 27 or the wall 28 as may be selected to give the desired spacing of the upper edge portion (not shown) of the furniture carrying the rail 26. Then the bolts 19 are drawn up to cause the members 13 and 14 to compressibly engage the rod 20 and hold it not only longitudinally but also against rotation. As indicated, Fig. 1, the off-set end 21 may be revolved from the solid line position around to the dash line position, the member 24 being permissibly carried around 360 degrees of travel so that the positioning of the member 24 may be had at any elevation ranging from the solid line position to the dash line all as indicated in Fig. 1.

While only one of the devices is shown as being mounted on the rail 26, obviously there will be at least two of these structures employed, one near one end 01' the rail and one near the other end of the rail 26 in order to maintain the spacing throughout the length of the piece of furniture.

As will have been noted, the structure embodying the invention is quite neat in appearance, and is quite easily adjusted and then maintained in its adjustment. By its mounting up close under the rail 26, it is substantially concealed from the forward side of the piece of furniture.

The rod 20 will be made of suflicient diameter so that when the piece of furniture may be shoved rather forceably against the wall, it will not tend to be distorted through the bends 22 and 23 but will remain in its originally designed oif-set condition. The length of the rod 20 from the bend 22 to the free end, that is the left hand end as viewed in Fig. 1, will be suflicient to take care of the varying degrees slopes of backs of couches and the like. That is, the rail 26 at the bottom of the couch will in different makes of furniture and different designs, be at different distances from the wall 28, and accordingly the structure embodying the invention takes care of that situation very nicely.

Therefore it is to be seen that I have produced a very simple and yet most effective device for the purpose intended and while I have shown the structure in the one particular form, it is obvious that variations may be employed without departing from the spirit of the invention, particularly in the mounting bracket itself, and I therefore do not desire to be limited to that precise form beyond the limitations which may be imposed by the following claims.

I claim:

1. A furniture guard comprising a mounted bracket; a rod having a major straight length and an offset end length in substantial parallelism with said major length; and means on said bracket receiving said. major length in a longitudinally shiftable and also rotatable manner.

2. A furniture guard comprising a mounting bracket rod to retain the rod in selected axial and rotary posifor engagement with a piece of furniture; a rod having a tions in respect to said end portion. major straight length and an offset end portion in the nature of a crank; a resilient cap over the end of said References Cited i h fil f h patent end portion; and rod engagement means carried by said bracket, said means comprising essentially a tubular UNITED STATES PATENTS structure receiving said major length axially there- D. 27,665 Bailey Sept. 21, 1897 through and approximately horizontally disposed with 1,445,726 Sores Feb. 20, 1923 an initial fit of the rod for rotation thereof about its 10 2,683,328 Thulin July 13, 1954 axis, and means eoacting with said structure and said 

